Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-11-30
Old Father Dunder.
HE TELLS HIGHLY MORAL FAIRY STORY
TO HIS ADMIRINe YOUNG FRIENDS.

HE TELLS HIGHLY MORAL FAIRY STORY
TO HIS ADMIRINe YOUNG FRIENDS.
Vhell, shildren, may be you like to hear
me talk some more vhas oanly an oldt
Dutchnans, but if do you some goot dat
vhas all right. I guess 1 tell you aboudt
some badt boy-a Teller who vhas named
Shacob Hornberger and who lif py dot
Black Forest in Shermany. What I tell
you happened SO long ago dot my great
grandfather vhas leedle poy. half some
peoples tell me it vhas fairy story, but I
doan' know. Vhell now to begin:
Vopce upon some time poy named
Shacob Hornberger lif by der Black Forest
NIT his parents. Dot poy doan' lie und
stheal, but he vhas cruel in his mindt. If
hit him NIT club, und if he sees some
leedle girl he likes to pinch her und- make
her yell SO loud as a cannon. Dot vhas a
pad preenciples, shildren. If you doan'
have some mercy und sympathy for odder
people you vhill some day stand oop on der
gallows to be hung.
Vhell, to proceed some more, dot boy
Shacob vhas tickled all oafer when haf some
shance to be cruel init dumb brute. 1t
vhas his delight to throw stones at some
dogs, hunt down CATS und kill off der inno-
cent birds. If he doan' be cruel to some
thing during der day he doan' shleep goot
at night. Lots of peoples talk to him und
gift him goot advice, but Shacob vhas no
peter. When a poy doan' heed der words
| of his parents und friends it vhas bad for
him-werry badt. He vhss on der plank
roadt to destruction, und he dies some aw-
| full death.
Well, one day Shacob finds rabbit NIT
two broken legs, und he vhas nefer so
tickled before. 1t vhas a shance to be
cruel, und he takes oudt his knife to torture
det poor rabbit A leetle oldt man NIT a
hump on his pack und one white eyebrow
comes oudt of der woods shus den und
"vhos you do, eh ShacobP You doan'
be cruel to de poor rabbit hope?"
81 like to skin him alife p says Shacob.
"But if you touch him you shall be pun
ished."
poy did? He jabs dot knife into dot rab.
bits eyes und laughs ha ha ha to hear
him cry oudt NIT pain. Howefer, he had
no sooner done dot dan der old man makes
two signs like dot und says:
| 81 turn dot poy into lean, plind wolf
und bid him go off NIT der Black Forest
Dot rabbit vhas all right again ~
Und, shildren, shust like you lif. Shacot
becomes plind wolf, NIT all his ribs plain
to be seen, und dot rabbit goes scamperine
off on four legs, nit his eyes. as goot as
eafer. Dot wolf howls NIT hunger und
pain, und While he runs he knocks himself
oafer lots of times und vhas badly used oop
If he can't see he can't catch something t(
eat, und in leetle time he goes deadt.
| If you see some rabbit, shildren, yor
vhill notice how crooked his hindt legi
vhas. Dot vhas because dey vhas broken
You notice some specs in his eyes. Do
vhas because he vhas cured SO queek of hi
blindness. Dot vhas my story, leedle ones
und like you to remember it. Der po!
who likes to gif pain to some helpless ami
mails vhill come oop to some badt man.
vhas peter dot our hearts vhas always full
of pity und mercy, uud dot we vhas al
ways ready NIT charity for der unfortunate